I have a problem with du running out of memory. I'm feeding it a list of null-separated file names via standard input, to a command-line that looks like:
du -b --files0-from=- The problem is that when du is run in this way, it leaks memory like a sieve. I feed it about 4.7 million paths but eventually it falls over as it hits the 32-bit address space limit. Now, I can understand why a du -c might want to exclude excess hard links to files, but that at most requires a hash table for device & inode pairs - it's hard to see why 4.7 million entries would cause OOM - and in any case, I'm not asking for a grand total. Is there any other alternative to running e.g. xargs -0 du -b, possibly with a high -n <arg> to xargs to limit memory leakage? -- Barry -- http://barrkel.blogspot.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
